ENER2I Kick-Off Minutes

ener2i – energy research to innovation: Reinforcing cooperation with Eastern Partnership countries on bridging the gap between energy research and energy innovation

Innovation in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ener2i Training Workshop

DRAFT AGENDA Date: October 15, 2014 Venue: 59 Pobediteley ave., Minsk, Belarus, Viktoria Hotel, 2nd floor

09.30–10.00 Registration

10.00–10.10 Opening and welcome (TBC)

10.00–10.10 Part 1: General aspects of innovation in energy efficiency and renewable energies

Moderators: Manfred Spiesberger, Centre for Social Innovation, Austria Olga Meerovskaya, Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of S&T Sphere, Belarus Opening and welcome (TBC)

Part 1: General aspects of innovation in energy efficiency and renewable energies

Moderators: Manfred Spiesberger, Centre for Social Innovation, Austria Anatoly Hryshanovich, Belarusian Innovation Fund, Belarus (TBC) 10.10–11.00 Policies, drivers and barriers for innovation  Knowledge societies and demands for the environment  Factors driving and impeding in innovations for renewable energy

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609532. Page 1 of 3  Policies aiming at renewable energy in the EU and US Yoram Krozer, University of Twente, Netherlands

11.00–11.15 Coffee break

11.15–12.15 Financing of innovations in energy efficiency and renewable energies: the example of Germany  Financing instruments  Examples from Germany Julian Schoenbeck, EnergyAgency.NRW, Germany

12.15–12.45 New approaches to innovation  Open Innovation  Social innovations, in particular in the energy field  EU innovation policy Manfred Spiesberger, Centre for Social Innovation, Austria

12.45–13.00 INNOVER-EAST: cooperation in energy efficiency Klaudia Tvergyak, Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research, Hungary

123.4500– Lunch break 13.3045 Part 2: Innovation in specific topics of energy efficiency and renewable energies

Moderators: Alexei Dick, BelISA (TBC) Michael Narodoslawsky, Graz University of Technology, Austria (TBC)

Part 2: Innovation in specific topics of energy efficiency and renewable energies

Moderators: Alexei Dick, Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of Scientific and Technical Sphere (TBC) 13.3045– Energy technology networks for smart cities or Smart cities in the context of spatial 14.3045 planning Experience in smart city planning, using innovative planning instruments(TBC) Michael Narodoslawsky, Graz University of Technology, Austria

14.3045– Coffee break 145.4500 145.4500– Green buildings and sustainable urban design: methods and practices 15.3045 Gintaras Stauskis, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

Energy efficient building – pre-design aspects 15.3045– Kęstutis Valančius, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania 16.1530 16.15-16.30 Closing remarks

Each session will combine a presentation by a speaker, as well as short interventions by participants and discussion. A session will last approximately for an hour.

Language – English, Russian. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609532. Page 2 of 3 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609532. Page 3 of 3